Until 1 November 2025, Waddington Custot Gallery Dubai is hosting Edges of Perception, a collective exhibition that brings together twelve contemporary artists. The show explores the subtle and striking contrasts that shape how we see and experience art, reflecting on the interplay between materials, forms, colours, and sensations. It unfolds as a meditation on the thresholds of the visible, where contrast becomes not opposition but a generative force and reveals new possibilities of aesthetic experience.
Among the featured artists are French painter Fabienne Verdier, British artist Ian Davenport, and American artist Landon Metz. Verdier fuses elements of Western Modernism with the principles of Chinese calligraphy to express nature’s energy, movement, and stillness. Davenport’s vivid compositions, created by pouring precise lines of gloss acrylic paint down the canvas, examine the paradox between order and chance. Metz’s minimalist artworks, meanwhile, evoke calm and spaciousness through their fluid forms and diluted tones.
Also on view are neon-threaded assemblages by Bolivian artist Kenia Almaraz Murillo, whose vibrant practice reimagines Bolivian weaving traditions through a contemporary lens, and monumental steel sculptures by Belgian sculptor Arnaud Rivieren, who transforms salvaged industrial materials into powerful compositions.
The exhibition further features works by British artist Marc Quinn and English photographer Nick Brandt. In his practice, Quinn employs materials as diverse as bread, flowers, bronze, and concrete to delve into themes of the body, genetics, identity, and the environment. Brandt’s photographic wildlife portraits address environmental degradation and climate collapse.
Greek artist Sophia Vari, known for her monumental polychrome sculptures and paintings that merge geometric precision with sensual form, explores the dialogue between spatial construction and art history. Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno covers his installations with iridescent panels; they shift and shimmer as visitors move, creating an ever-changing perception of object and environment.
Italian artist Umberto Mariani transforms the density of lead into lyrical monochrome draperies, exploring illusion, light, and shadow within folded forms. French artist and designer Hubert Le Gall merges function and fantasy in his poetic furniture pieces. He combines diverse materials (wood, glass, resin, ceramics, and especially bronze) with playful proportions and surrealist whimsy inspired by the Surrealists.
Meanwhile, French artist Bernar Venet, renowned for his curved steel sculptures, investigates the intersection of mathematics, scientific language, and art through his distinctive material vocabulary of metal, coal, asphalt, and tar. His Indeterminate Line embodies the paradox of structure and instability, echoing the show’s central inquiry.
For more information about Edges of Perception, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
In addition, you might be interested in visiting Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity by Nazgol Ansarinia.
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